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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

 

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Prabal Dutta
  Pervasive Personal Sensing

  June 11, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 3551 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
  Compressing Location Traces using Maps

  June 4, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Main Conference Room, 3551 BH

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• CENS SRC URO Scholars Poster Session

  May 14, 2010 -- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard

• CENS SRC URO Scholars Event: From Mount St. Helens to the White House: Where a Degree in Science or Engineering Can Lead

  May 14, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Lin Zhong
  Toward a sensory mobile system

  May 7, 2010, 1:00 PM -- May 13, 2010, 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeongyeup Paek
  Energy-Efficient Rate-Adaptive GPS-based Positioning for Smartphones

  April 30, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Karen Kim
  CENS Ethics Seminar: Discussion about Authorship

  April 16, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Yuvraj Agarwal
  Building Aggressively Duty-Cycled Platforms to Achieve Energy Efficiency

  April 9, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Sameera Poduri
  Visibility Monitoring using Mobile Phones

  March 12, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Main Conference Room 3551 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Murali Annavaram
  Energy Efficiency: The Critical Ingredient to Untethering Wireless Body Area Networks

  March 5, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Travis Collier
  Localizing animal vocalizations in a terrestrial environment with a wireless sensor network

  February 26, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Scott Moeller
  Routing Without Routes: The Backpressure Collection Protocol

  February 12, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Richard Guy
  Deployment in the Real World--Challenges from CENS Seismic in Peru

  February 5, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS 3551BH: Main Conference Room

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Todd Presner
  HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Mapping Platform

  January 29, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Main Conference Room - 3551 Boelter Hall

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Leyla Sabet
  Marine Toxin Domoic Acid Biosensor and Utilization of the Sensor and Feedback System Control (FSC) to Understand the Complex Conditions which Induce the Production of Domoic Acid

  January 22, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Zainul Charbiwala
  Recovering Lost Sensor Data through Compressed Sensing

  January 15, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Thomas Schmid
  Software - Hardware Interactions in the Time Service of Embedded Wireless Systems

  January 8, 2010 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: 4760 BH

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jeff Burke
  Urban Sensing as Experience Infrastructure

  August 21, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• Four CENS Students Win Fellowships

  08-Jun-10

  Congratulations to four CENS graduate students for winning outstanding fellowships. Min Y. Mun and Matt Mayernik were awarded a UC Dissertation Year Fellowship; Donnie Kim was selected as an Intel PhD Fellowship recipient; Teresa Ko won a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Read More

• Miller-McCune - Invasive Weeds? There's An App for That

  13-May-10

  Thanks to the work of Eric Graham and other CENS researchers, resource managers working in national parks have a new tool in their arsenal to monitor and control invasive weeds: a mobile application that allows park visitors to identify and report harmful non-native plants. Read More

• Conservation Maven - Using public surveillance cameras to detect evidence of climate change

  02-Apr-10

  CENS Researcher Eric Graham and fellow researchers from UCLA have tested out an approach of using public internet-connected cameras to monitor plant changes on a continental scale. The method may help scientists detect the signals of climate change. Read More

• Daily Bruin - Environment 185 Class Uses Smart Phone Features Such as GPS to Research Green Issues on Campus

  12-Feb-10

  While most students use their cell phones to text or chat, those enrolled in an environmental studies class are putting a scientific twist on the gadget. Four current research projects for the class Environment 185 incorporate CENS’s technology for gathering information through smart phone features like cameras and GPS. Read More

• The New York Times - Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There

  30-Jan-10

  Years ago, enthusiasts predicted the coming of “smart dust” — tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering all sorts of information and communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and understand the physical world in new ways.
  
  Several CENS projects are highlighted. Read More

• LA Times - Brendan M. Kutler

  07-Jan-10

  It is with profound sadness and a great sense of loss that we inform you that Brendan Kutler, one of our CENS High School Scholars in 2008 and ongoing contributor to CENS participatory sensing research, passed away in his sleep on December 29, 2009 at the age of 17. It's an understatement to say that he will be missed as part of the CENS family. Read More

• Santa Barbara Independent - Cell Phone App Combats Weeds

  06-Jan-10

  UCLA and the National Park Service have teamed up to combat weeds. The university’s Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area developed a cell phone app to locate invasive plant species within national parks, which will help park service workers. Read More

• The New York Times - New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

  20-Dec-09

  Hybrid careers that combine computing with other fields will increasingly be the new American jobs of the future, labor experts say. In other words, the nation’s economy is going to need more cool nerds.
  CENS Summer High School Scholar Mario Calleros is featured. Read More

• NPR Science Friday - "Data Mining in the Mobile World": Radio Interview with Deborah Estrin

  18-Dec-09

  CENS Director Deborah Estrin was interviewed today on the NPR radio program Science Friday. Read More

• Latest Biodiscovery at CENS

  05-Nov-09

  The latest biosensor discovery at CENS--squirrels as detectors of leaky irrigation systems.
  
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• CNN.com - A new way of looking at the world

  02-Nov-09

  An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of "data" and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand.
  
  Nathan Yau, a CENS graduate student at UCLA is featured. He founded a Web site, Your Flowing Data, that helps people chart their lives using Twitter. Read More

• CENS SRC URO Scholars Program

  24-Sep-09

  Apply today to become a CENS SRC URO Scholar! CENS is accepting applications for UCLA undergraduates to apply to the 2009-2010 CENS SRC URO Scholars Program. Deadline: October 16, 2009 Read More

• Deborah Estrin awarded 2009 ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award

  11-Sep-09

  Congratulating to CENS's Director, Deborah Estrin for being this year's winner of the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award! Sigmobile is the Association of Computing Machinery's special interest group on wireless and mobile communications.

• Slashdot.org - Your Rights Online: Privacy, Mobile Phones, Ubiquitous Data Collection

  03-Sep-09

  CENS' Katie Shilton's article is featured on slashdot. Read More

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